“Leverage, Pablo.”
He glanced up, startled. He had concentrated so intently on watching Foster's appearance, as if they had faced eye-to-eye, he hadn’t heard Stuart enter.
“Terrorists understand that,” Stuart continued. “They invested a million bucks max to pull off 9/11 and paralyzed for a time a multi-trillion dollar economy.”
But Pablo's thoughts were elsewhere. “Foster’s a trigger man, Stuart. He arms the naïve and sends them on their way to kill. Killing for the sake of killing, that’s all that counts.”
“Welcome to our ugly world.”
Pablo ignored the sarcasm. “‘No one’s innocent, while soldiers pillage and dishonor Muslim lands.’ He said that in his Al Jazeera harangue.”
Stuart merely shrugged, the gesture of a veteran beyond shock.
But Pablo wasn’t. Foster was unique, he beli
